16 must-read fiction books like The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

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The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that creat…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3) by N.K. Jemisin , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

By: Ann Leckie

4.08

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of … read more

Similar categories in Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2) book and N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Captain,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"Do you even know,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

" Not tea but blood! "

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

"I’d run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time…"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

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2. Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

3. The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that creat… read more

Similar categories in N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3) book and N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

  • romance
  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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4. Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

By: Ann Leckie

4.22

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice. For a moment… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Please, sir."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"I’ve been thinking about it, since you said it,"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!"

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

"There was not ... universal enthusiasm at the prospect of treating Humans as Significant beings."

-Ann Leckie, Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

5. Patternmaster (Patternmaster, #4)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The combined mind--force of a telepathic race, patternist thoughts can destroy, heal, rule. For the… read more

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6. Mind of My Mind (Patternmaster, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For 4,000 years, an immortal has spread the seeds of a master race, using the downtrodden as his pr… read more

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7. Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)

By: Ann Leckie

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once,… read more

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8. Clay's Ark (Patternmaster, #3)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An innocent familiy, carjacked on a desolate highway, is abducted to a bizarre new world. A world b… read more

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9. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • epic fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Cover of System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Martha Wells

10. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

By: Martha Wells

4.22

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"

-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

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11. Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

By: William Kely McClung

4.37

Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition

Heroes, Like Swords, Are Forged In Blood! From the steaming jungles of Southeast Asia, to the n… read more

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"Afraid to live, too cowardly to die."

-William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

"And supernatural? Only science not yet understood."

-William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

"Yeah, nerdship could be inherited as surely as any knighthood"

-William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

"Of course it didn’t make sense… knowledge was finite, imagination was not."

-William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

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12. Witch King

By: Martha Wells

3.71

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

"I didn't know you were a... demon." "You idiot. I'm the demon." Kai's having a long day in Marth… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Mother bared her fangs. "Stop being overdramatic." Kai would have loved to, if dramatic things would stop happening to him."

-Martha Wells, Witch King

Cover of A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) by P. Djèlí Clark

13. A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

By: P. Djèlí Clark

4.03

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Before God, our blood means nothing. Virtue is in deeds, not the skin."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"Fatma had heard enough. Should have known the kid wouldn't be an honest broker, not with all the wallahis he threw around."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

"The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save."

-P. Djèlí Clark, A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

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14. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.19

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

The first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Colum… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) book and N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

  • fantasy
  • adult
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
"What use is a power to read the heavens if it cannot be turned to your own benefit?"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"There was magic in the world, pure and simple, things she didn't understand. Best get used to it."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

"We have become a place of long weeping A house of scattered feathers There is no home for us between earth and sky. —From Collected Lamentations from the Night of Knives"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)

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15. The Raven Tower

By: Ann Leckie

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Can you hear me now? I'm talking to you."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"What is it that makes language a far more powerful—and risky—tool for gods than it is for even humans? What is it that makes gods gods? What am I?"

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Given a bit more time he might have realized that what kept him alive was the same god whose continued existence drained his power so relentlessly."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

"Perhaps the length of one’s life was not important—except in the way it is to so many living beings, desperate to avoid death. Perhaps, long or short, it mattered how one spent that time."

-Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower

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16. Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying The great city of Tova… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) book and N.K. Jemisin's The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"But perhaps unforgivable acts are what is required to save this city. I tried kindness, again and again, and I failed."

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Duty is a fine thing for those whose shoulders are stooped to the yoke, but it smothers those born to the wing. —Exhortations for a Happy Life"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

"Some have called me a fool for seeking to master the wild magics. But they have called me a fool only once, and the plaints of the dead matter not. —From The Manual of the Dreamwalkers, by Seuq, a sp…"

-Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2)

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17. A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

By: Samantha Shannon

4.36

Format: 868 pages, Hardcover

In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Or… read more

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  • romance
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"We could start by not scorning one another for our beliefs, or lack of them." Thrit"

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Tunuva returned to her watching, knowing that this was the last night she would have everything she wanted in the world, all in one place."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

"Desire had been a madness in her, grounded by a love that had filled her like a breath - as if it had always been meant, written on her soul when it was just a seed."

-Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night (The Roots of Chaos, #0)

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18. The Tainted Cup

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Format: 413 pages, Hardcover

In Daretana’s most opulent mansion, a high Imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, w… read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

19. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • high fantasy
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) by Shelley Parker-Chan

20. He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

By: Shelley Parker-Chan

4.25

Format: 486 pages, ebook

How much would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after … read more

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  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"A man's greatest treasure is his sons."

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"Take him out drinking with you somewhere in Qingyuan tonight. Then on the way home,"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

"This was the part she loved, fiercely. The leap from which there was no turning back; the buoyant thrill of knowing that all the threads of action would come together—had to come together—into succes…"

-Shelley Parker-Chan, He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2)

Cover of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1) by Shannon Chakraborty

21. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Amina al-Sirafi, #1)

By: Shannon Chakraborty

4.27

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and … read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction

14 must-read adult books like The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

Transform Your Habits

Ancillary Sword (Imperial Radch, #2)

Ann Leckie

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)

N.K. Jemisin

4.40

Transform Your Habits

Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch, #3)

Ann Leckie

4.22

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

Transform Your Habits

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

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The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

None

Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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